Heba Thorisdottir
Heba Thorisdottir is an Iceland-born makeup artist and department head based in Los Angeles. She relocated from Iceland to Los Angeles around two decades ago to pursue a career in makeup artistry. In her early days in Hollywood, she worked in very humble roles such as craft service and production assistant on music video sets, while slowly transitioning into makeup work for major artists like R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Sting. Over time, she established a reputation for versatility across various platforms, including red carpet looks, commercial campaigns, fashion editorials, and film work.
Thorisdottir has become a frequent collaborator with director Quentin Tarantino, heading makeup departments on films such as Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Django Unchained (2012), and The Hateful Eight (2015). In Once Upon a Time⊠in Hollywood (2019), she led the makeup team and was even cast in a cameo role as âSonya.â Her approach often emphasises realism and subtle transformation rather than relying on heavy prosthetics or digital effects.
Throughout her career, she has received numerous award nominations and honours. For The Hateful Eight (2015), she was a 2016 Saturn Award nominee (shared with Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger) for Best Make-Up. Her work on The Suicide Squad (2021) earned her a 2022 Saturn Award nomination (shared with Greg Funk and Brian Sipe) for Best Make-Up. She was also nominated for a 2022 Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award (shared with Greg Funk, Sabrina Wilson, and Jillian Erickson) for Best Contemporary Makeup for The Suicide Squad. More recently, for Once Upon a Time⊠in Hollywood (2019), she received a 2020 Hollywood Guild nomination (shared with Greg Funk) for Best Period and/or Character Makeup. For Babylon (2022), she was nominated in 2023 by the Hollywood Guild (shared with Shaunna Chavez, Jean Ann Black, and Mandy Artusato) for Best Period/Character Makeup, and by various criticsâ and film bodies such as the Online Film & Television Association, the North Carolina Film Critics Association, and the Hawaii Film Critics Society. She also won a Minnesota Film Critics Alliance Award in 2023 (shared with Mary Zophres and Jaime Leigh McIntosh) for Best Costume & Makeup for Babylon.

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

We Bought a Zoo

The Cowboy and the Frenchman

Licorice Pizza

The Monuments Men

Babylon

The Suicide Squad

Inglourious Basterds

Don't Worry Darling

Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Django Unchained

The Black Dahlia

Hanna

May December

Ant-Man

Bridesmaids

The Prestige

The Good German

The Hateful Eight

The Nanny Diaries

Ghostbusters

When We Get to Heaven

Chef

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Wolfs

One Battle After Another

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Rise: Blood Hunter

The Island

Captain Marvel

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Song to Song

The Avengers

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Avengers: Endgame

Death of a Unicorn

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Something from Tiffany's

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

Why Him?

The Boss

Wish I Was Here

Iron Man 3

He's Just Not That Into You

The Spirit

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Other Boleyn Girl

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

Women in Film

Permanent Midnight

Permanent Midnight

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Dance! Workout with Barbie

The French as Seen byâŠ

P.I. Private Investigations

Kiss Exposed

Lady in the Lake
East of Eden

The Shrink Next Door

Amend: The Fight for America

The Unicorn

Atypical

The Sarah Silverman Program.

On the Air
